餐
cān HSK2

eat

餐 cān
meal noun
(bound form) food; a meal; food for a particular time or of a particular style

最佳喝水时间是两餐之间。

zuì​jiā hē shuǐ shí​jiān shì liǎng cān zhī​jiān.

The best time to drink water is between meals.

to eat verb
(bound form) to eat; to dine; to consume food

两人开始沉默地用餐。

liǎng rén kāi​shǐ chén​mò de yòng cān.

The two of them started eating in silence.

[classifier] measure word
measure word for meals

你如何规划每一餐？

nǐ rú​hé guī​huà měi yī cān?

How do you plan each meal?

to suffer
(literary) to suffer or undergo something painful, such as a beating or punishment
to take in
(literary) to take in, listen to, or adopt (e.g. advice, reputation, or scenery)

Cross-References

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,465th most common 75.7 per million
Movie subtitles
619th most common 225.2 per million appears in 57% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
19.4 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
52.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+9910

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)